The ‘insane’ number of women being killed in Canada

On Tuesday, Justice Minister Sean Fraser introduced Bill C-16: the Protecting Victims Act, which proposes, among other things, to define murders of women involving “control, hate, sexual violence or exploitation” as “femicide.” The bill, if passed, would allow such killings to be classified as first-degree murder, even without premeditation, and would add the word femicide to the Criminal Code.

In addition to femicide, the government says the proposed legislation would protect victims of sexual violence and keep children safe from predators.

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